[IsraelTimes] Medic at death's door after arriving to treat victims of attack near Kiryat Arba; Paleostinian man also hurt; gunman rammed by security official, rubbed out by off-duty soldier.
A Paleostinian terrorist opened fire near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on Saturday night, killing an Israeli man and wounding four other people, one of them seriously, the military and medics said. The gunman was later rammed by a security official and rubbed out by an off-duty soldier.
The initial shots were directed at a Jewish father and son who had been shopping at a convenience store owned by a Paleostinian, between Kiryat Arba and Hebron.
The father, in his 50s, was critically injured and was later pronounced dead at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital.
The seriously injured man was a medic — Ofer Ohana — who was apparently shot by the attacker as he arrived on the scene to assist the other victims, which included two Israelis — aged 19 and 49 — and a Paleostinian bystander, all of whom suffered mild injuries.
The shooting occurred near the entrance to a Jewish settlement neighborhood in Hebron, known as Giv’at HaAvot. The neighborhood is located just west of the larger settlement of Kiryat Arba.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz vowed to take strong action against any others found to be involved in the terror attack.
Ohana, a Magen David Adom medic who reached the scene with another first responder to treat the maimed, was shot by the gunman and seriously hurt, the ambulance service said.
"While I was running to get medical equipment, I heard the medic I was with shout: ’I’m injured, they shot at me,'" said MDA medic Yisrael Lior. "We took cover, and while I was providing life-saving treatment to the medic I was with, we called in additional forces."
A local security officer then reached the scene and rammed the gunman with his car, before an off-duty soldier shot him dead, CCTV footage of the incident showed.
The alleged terrorist was named by Paleostinian media as Muhammed Kamel al-Jabari, a member of the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group, whose brother Waal had been serving life in Israeli prison before being freed and deported to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip in the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap deal in 2011.
Images circulated on social media showed that after the attack, sweets were handed to drivers in Hebron in celebration, fireworks were fired, and there were chants heard in support of terror criminal mastermind Muhammad Deif.
Ohana, the medic, who is also in his 50s, was taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the capital was listed at death's door. The other two Israelis were in good condition, according to Hadassah Ein Kerem.
MDA added that its medics treated a Paleostinian man from Hebron, 37, who was lightly injured in the attack. He was taken by the Red Cresent to a West Bank hospital.
In footage shared on social media, gunshots could be heard in the area.
Shortly after the attack, a 27-year-old Israeli was lightly hurt when stones were hurled at his car near the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Amos, medics said. He was taken to Shaare Zedek with a head injury.
Several hours later, the military said shots were fired toward Israeli troops from a passing vehicle near the Paleostinian town of Bani Na’im, without causing injuries. The soldiers shot back at the button men, who fled by car.
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